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Are you looking for creative ways of earning money with a work at home craft job?

Are you able to knit? If so, you may well be able to launch a successful work at home craft business like knitting for a profit.

Knitted and crocheted products are enjoying an upsurge in popularity and the knitting stores seem to be quite busy, even on days other stores have few customers. The patterns available are quite stylish and the yarns are often gorgeously soft.

The good yarn is not cheap, and it can take quite a while to complete a project, so you will have to be sure you charge an adequate amount to cover your expenses. But if you market these items to well-paid executives, online, with good key words (seo optimization), you should be able to find customers who have more money available than time or skills to make their own.

If this is something that interests you, check out these eBooks:

Knitting for Profit – a complete knitting business success manual in downloadable E-book format. It’s “jam-packed with all the methods previously known by only a small handful of successful knitterpreneurs. This program contains the author’s FIVE strategies for making money from knitting (based on the techniques of real knitterpreneurs) and all the information you’ll ever need to help you make money from your passion of knitting. This ebook comes with a 60 day, no-risk, unconditional 100% money-back guarantee. Can’t beat that!
These two are more generic for starting a craft business in general:

Profitable Crafts Vol. 1 – A Kindle eBook with “Proven Techniques To Help Your Craft Sales Soar! Gain Confidence As Profits Explode!”

How to Start Your Own Craft Business is a comprehensive craft business guide written with the novice in mind. And this eBook comes with a 100% money back guarantee – you have 8 full weeks to decide if it is a worthwhile investment for your new business!

Earning money with a work at home craft job such as knitting is not easy, but it is very do-able. It is NOT a get rich quick business. It is, however, a business that can help you earn money at home as you strive to work for a profit, and do something you love, while taking care of your family.

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When I decided it was time for me to start making money from home again, in order to have a flexible schedule around aging parents and young grandkids, I did a lot of research into computer work at home opportunities, and decided to give blogging and writing online a try. I’ve been working towards that goal for a few years and really got serious about it two years ago. I’ve learned a lot, made a lot of mistakes, been encouraged, discouraged, and overall, have had a lot of fun. Haven’t made much money yet, but I’ve gotten a great education for very little spent, so it’s definitely been worthwhile.

If a business from home using the internet to make money online is an interest of yours as well, stay tuned. I’m going to be sharing lessons learned and resources discovered on a regular basis. I’ve read a ton of books in the process and I thought I’d share some of my favorites – old and new, hard copy and ebooks.

Tonight, I’m starting with one of my favorite bloggers and writers. Problogger is the name of the book AND the name of a great resource site for new and old bloggers. The book gives a great overview of making extra money at home as a blogger and is excellent for beginners. Written by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett, it’s both interesting and informative!  This is a hard copy book that you can find at most bookstores, including Alibris or you can order it for your Kindle. Be sure to get the most current edition as there were updates in it.

In addition to all the great info at the site, Darren also does a specialty series, 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, periodically. I discovered one he had done previously through the book, and read through most of the posts online, learning a ton as I did so.

This past year he did another 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. I signed up and did many of the assignments. I was quite excited to see how much I’d already learned since the last one, but I also learned plenty of new things as well, in addition to being reminded of lessons I’d previously learned but hadn’t yet started doing. After he completed this series, he wrote an Ebook with all the lessons we learned online, plus additional information.

As he explained it,

· it contains new tips and reflections for each of the 31 days (6000 extra words of content)

· it puts all of the 31 days of tasks and teaching into one document that you can dip into and out of for all time

· the tasks have all received a refresh with a professional edit and design/layout including notes areas so you can record what you’re learning and planning.

It’s definitely a great resource for beginners who already have their blogs. Technically it’s not for people just starting out – prebloggers as he refers to them. Personally, I would start with his first book, Problogger, along with some other good books for new bloggers (which I’ll write about in future posts), but I would read this, as well, before starting.

I printed my copy out and put it in a three-ring notebook. But I also keep a copy of it on both of my computers, as it has clickable links in it. That makes it easy to go back and work through it step by step as we get going on our sites.

It’s a terrific resource for a reasonable price, complete with a money-back guarantee, and he is also offering a free one-hour audio interview with answers to frequently asked questions. Click here to view more details

My only regret about it is that he didn’t write it a year earlier. It is a lot easier to read this than the 200+ miscellaneous pages I printed from his website last year! Then again, those are useful too. With Problogger, I don’t think you can go wrong with any of his materials.

Despite what many people like to say, there are very few, if any, easy ways of earning money at home using the internet. It takes a lot of learning, a lot of hard work, and a lot of persistence. These two books from Problogger are a HUGE help for all of us  as we work through that process!

When my kids were young, I was interested in earning money at home so I started a desktop publishing business and was able to earn money typing at home. I didn’t get rich, but it did help with the bills and I was thrilled to be making extra money at home and have a flexible schedule since I had to take one daughter to therapy due to an injury to her wrist.

I focused on resumes and college papers and stayed fairly busy. I still remember walking all over the college campus putting up flyers (make sure you get permission from the school office first). As a 30-something, I felt a little weird hanging up posters at the school, but it really paid off. I had a steady flow of students who needed their papers typed and one teacher who used me fairly regularly until we moved out of state.

My favorite resource book at the time, which I still have in my collection, was Resume Pro by Yana Parker. I loved her resumes and so did the people who hired my clients, not to mention my kids’ business teacher in college. She gave them an “A” for the resumes I helped them prepare, using Yana Parker’s book.

I don’t currently earn money typing resumes at home as a business, but I am occasionally on call for my kids and their friends and that’s still the first book I turn to. It’s available as a used book from Amazon, among other places, and is a terrific resource for those interested in being able to earn money typing at home!